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<img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" alt="Benefit of Rajyoga" src="http://brahmakumaris.com/images/benefitofrajyoga.jpg" class="demo" />   The benefits of meditation are enormous. It calms our mind and body.  In these fast and frenetic times, it has the most important ability to  replenish mental and emotional energy.<br />
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Meditation enables you to create new attitudes and responses to life, giving you a clear spiritual understanding of yourself.<br />
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Meditation  is the process of re-discovering, enjoying and using the positive  qualities latent within you. Like any skill, meditation requires  practice to achieve positive and satisfying results. By doing a little  every day, it soon becomes a natural and easy habit, which generously  rewards you for the little effort it involves.<br />
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<strong>What Does Meditation Do?</strong><br />
Meditation  energizes your awareness bringing both peace and wisdom to a busy mind.  It expands your capacity to love and heals broken hearts. Also it  dissolves many fears replacing them with lightness and freedom from  anxiety.<br />
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Meditation is both the journey and the destination,  revealing the secrets of consciousness and the treasures of the soul. It  develops the power to be more alert and to be effective in our  interaction with each other and with our precious world. But perhaps the  greatest gift that comes with meditation is the glow of inner peace  that is both gentle and strong.<br />
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The practice of Raja Yoga  meditation or intellectual communion with God brings into the soul many  powers. Of these, eight are very important. Please refer to the  adjoining diagram.<br />
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<strong>The Power To Pack-Up</strong><br />
With  the ability to go within, one can learn how to pack up all wasteful  thinking in a second, so that there is lightness and freedom from  burdens and worries, though there may be many responsibilities. One&rsquo;s  mind is scattered over the wide world and so much drawn out to men and  matters that he is unable to sleep or to detach himself at his will.  With the practice of meditation, one can wind up one&rsquo;s thoughts at one&rsquo;s  own will.<br />
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<strong>Power To Tolerate</strong><br />
Just as  trees offer the same fruits to people whether they gently pluck the  fruits or pelt stones at them, a yogi tolerates all attacks on him and  does good even to those who offer brickbats at him. In the light frame  of mind, one will be able to tolerate all types of situations and people  to the extent that there is no sense at all of having to tolerate  something or someone. With the understanding that each one is simply  playing their role in this immense world-drama, impatience, irritation  and annoyance disappear like mists before a bright sunlight.<br />
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The Power To Accommodate</strong><br />
Just  as the ocean accepts different rivers that flow into it, whether  polluted or clean, one will be able to adjust to all that is happening  around him, so will a yogi be able to accommodate others with him. It  power makes one broadminded. One will be able to adjust into all the  happenings around him. Even when the atmosphere is charged with  negativity or impurity, one remains unaffected.<br />
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<strong>The Power Of Judgment</strong><br />
One  will learn to take correct and quick decisions. One will get the  ability to accurately assess any situation with clarity and confidence.  In a detached, impartial state of mind, one can judge one&rsquo;s own  thoughts, words and actions to see if they are beneficial. One will  become a judge of the self and not of others.<br />
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<strong>The Power Of Discrimination</strong><br />
Just  as an expert jeweler can easily distinguish between the false and the  pure diamonds (or gems), one will acquire the power to distinguish  between right and wrong or good and bad. One can accurately discriminate  between real truth and the apparent truth, between things of temporary  value and those of eternal value and between superficial and the subtle.  The power helps in recognizing illusions even when they are sweetly  decorated and enticing.<br />
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The Power To Face</strong><br />
Meditation  develops the power to endure hardships. Adversities like death of those  on whom one depends may come and high storms may rage strongly, yet his  flame of equanimity does not get extinguished. Having confidence in  one&rsquo;s spiritual state brings the courage to face any type of situation.<br />
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<strong>The Power To Co-Operate</strong><br />
The  natural result of all the powers is that I am able to share with others  the tasks and qualities that my Father has given to me. There is no  feeling of competition, so I can give as well as accept suggestion as to  how to proceed with the task of world upliftment. By learning  meditation, one will develop the spirit of co-operation. This is a great  achievement because if everyone gives his little finger, the society  could lift great mountains.<br />
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<strong>The Power to Withdraw</strong><br />
With  full awareness that I (soul) am is an entity different from the body,  one can withdraw from the senses and become a point. In the same way  that a tortoise retreats into it&rsquo;s shell in a moment of danger, or just  to rest, a person would be able to retract himself from&nbsp; any situation  and remain protected.&nbsp;